The brand of SYFF 2022
Poster of The neighbourhood Storyteller screening on Nov 5
Still from We Are From There screening on Nov 4
After a two-year hiatus, Syria Film Festival returns to Toronto this Friday. 9 movies will likely be screened over 3 nights on the Royal Cinema
— Sahel Zreik
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, October 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Founded in 2015, the Syria Film Festival in Toronto (SYFF) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit group with a mission to convey Syrian cinema and tradition to Toronto by screening Syria-related movies of all genres.
SYFF returns after a two-year hiatus for a sixth installment from November 4 to six, 2022. All screenings will begin at 6:30 pm and can happen on the Royal Cinema in Toronto.
“One of the themes in this year’s program is the exploration of the meaning of home and the human ability to cope with change,” stated Sahel Zreik, one of many pageant’s organizers.
This yr’s opening characteristic documentary, Wissam Tanios’s We Are From There, follows two brothers of their mid-20s as they take a leap of religion and half methods to start out a brand new life from scratch.
A Q&A with Milad Khawam, a trumpet participant, producer, and composer primarily based in Berlin, and one of many brothers featured within the film will comply with the screening.
Screening on the second night time of the pageant is Alejandra Alcala’s documentary The Neighborhood Storyteller, the story of Asmaa, a younger and education-deprived Syrian lady embarking on a brand new read-aloud challenge to empower teenage women to construct a way forward for alternatives she by no means had.
Asmaa’s challenge is supported by We Love Reading, a world initiative that goals to catalyze long-term cultural change by studying and ability improvement.
Closing the pageant is award-winning director David Henry Gerson’s The Story Won’t Die, an inspiring and well timed take a look at a younger era of Syrian artists, who use their work to protest and course of what’s at present the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of individuals since World War II.
The full program might be seen right here: https://www.syff.ca/syff2022, tickets are $15 per screening and can be found by this hyperlink: https://SYFF2022.eventbrite.ca
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